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Bitcoin forks are defined variantly as changes in the protocol of the bitcoin network or as the situations that occur "when two or more blocks have the same block height". [1] A fork influences the validity of the rules. Forks are typically conducted in order to add new features to a blockchain, to reverse the effects of hacking or catastrophic ...
The word "fork" has been used to mean "to divide in branches, go separate ways" as early as the 14th century. [2] In the software environment, the word evokes the fork system call, which causes a running process to split itself into two (almost) identical copies that (typically) diverge to perform different tasks.
However, other forum users disagreed with thankful_for_today's direction for BitMonero and decided to fork it in 2014, leading to the creation of Monero. [6] Monero translates to coin in Esperanto. [6] Both van Saberhagen and thankful_for_today remain anonymous. [6] Monero has the third-largest community of developers, behind bitcoin and ...
Fork and pull model refers to a software development model mostly used on GitHub, where multiple developers working on an open, shared project make their own contributions by sharing a main repository and pushing changes after granted pull request by integrator users.
The original MPC, along with the MPC-HC fork, mimic the simplistic look and feel of Windows Media Player 6.4, but provide most options and features available in modern media players. Variations of the original MPC and its forks are standard media players in the K-Lite Codec Pack and the Combined Community Codec Pack.
Ethereum Classic is a blockchain-based distributed computing platform that offers smart contract (scripting) functionality. [1] It is open source and supports a modified version of Nakamoto consensus via transaction-based state transitions executed on a public Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).
As of September 2021, youtube-dl is one of the most starred projects on GitHub, with over 100,000 stars. [6] According to libraries.io, 308 other packages and 1.43k repositories depend on it. [7] Numerous forks exist of the project.
Adempiere, a community maintained fork of Compiere 2.5.3b, due to disagreement with commercial and technical direction of Compiere Inc. Cdrkit, from Cdrtools due to perceived licensing issues. [4] [5] [6] LedgerSMB, from SQL-Ledger, due to disagreements over handling of security issues. MindTouch, a fork of MediaWiki.